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Events in crypto take place at warp speed. This weekly crypto podcast reveals how the marquee names in crypto are reacting to the week’s top headlines. With host Laura Shin, the guests also discuss what they’re thinking about these days and reveal what they believe is on the horizon in crypto. Disclosure: I'm a nocoiner.
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February 19, 2021 • 41 mins
Lea Thompson, aka Girl Gone Crypto, talks about what goes into producing her popular “The Crypto Minute” vlog, what initially got her into crypto, and her recent decision to quit her day job and go full time crypto. In this episode we discuss:
what “The Crypto Minute” is all about, and all the crypto video content she produces (2:37)
how Lea comes up with creative content such as wearing a whale costume to portray Microstrategy ...
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February 12, 2021 • 37 mins
Michael Moro, CEO of Genesis Global, discusses Tesla’s purchase of $1.5 billion in bitcoin and Genesis’s new unit: Genesis Treasury. He also talks about how demand has shaped Genesis’ bitcoin and crypto offerings over the years, which events have acted as catalysts for institutional demand, and what Genesis is expecting in 2021. In this episode Michael covers:
The significance of Tesla allocating $1.5 billion to BTC (1:08)
How...
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February 5, 2021 • 35 mins
Mira Christanto, research analyst at Messari, recently wrote a comprehensive report on the crypto scene in Asia. In this episode, she covers cultural differences in crypto trading between East and West, plus gives us the latest on the diverse regulatory landscape within this large region. Some topics covered in this show include:
why Asia is an important geography in crypto
why Asia dominates the crypto futures trading markets
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January 29, 2021 • 46 mins
Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO and founder of FTX, describes what happened between the Subreddit Wall Street Bets and hedge funds around the stock of GameStop this week. In this episode, he covers:
what happened with the stock of video game retailer GameStop this week
what that says about how to value a stock
how the traditional financial establishment reacted
how the events in GameStop this week are similar to the way crypto markets ...
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January 22, 2021 • 40 mins
Gregory Pepin, deputy CEO of Deltec Bank and Trust, responds to allegations in a blog post by the pseudonymous Crypto Anonymous, that Tether is a "highly probably fraud." In this episode, he covers:
how Deltec accounts for its reserves, and why they didn't show up on Crypto Anonymous's blog post
where the dollars backing Tethers are held
how Tethers get created
where Tether Ltd. keeps its cash equivalents
why there's more dem...
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January 15, 2021 • 44 mins
Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at Coinshares, and Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Ventures, join me at the Stacks conference to discuss Bitcoin layer 2s. In this episode, they cover:
why layers 2s exist
how layer 2s, such as payment channels like Lightning, work
what kind of throughput layer 2s have
how moving Bitcoin to layer 2 affects the price
why people having moved $5 billion worth of Bitcoin to E...
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January 8, 2021 • 33 mins
Frank Chaparro, director of news at The Block, gives his predictions for what will happen in crypto in 2021. In this episode, we discuss:
the big stories in crypto in 2020
how the market has changed in 2020
how the market differs from the 2017-2018 bubble
what big traditional financial services firms and investment banks will do in crypto in 2021
how crypto exchanges will experiment with their fee structures
how regulatory a...
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January 1, 2021 • 28 mins
For the holidays, I'm doing two AMAs. In the second of two, I cover:
privacy blockchains
my thoughts on the STABLE Act
whether or not Facebook's Diem will have a positive or negative impact on crypto
what I miss from pre-COVID about the crypto community
how we can use blockchain and crypto to weed our propaganda and fake news
the best pick and shovel plays in crypto
what distinguishes a journalist from an entertainer
my th...
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December 25, 2020 • 28 mins
For the holidays, I'm doing two AMAs. In this first of two, I cover:
how my book is going
tips for aspiring podcasters
what it's like being an independent journalist
how I spent my time outside crypto
if I send bitcoin to North Korea
whether I own any crypto
if I expect bitcoin will lose its weirdness as it becomes more widely adopted
how much blockchain technology can disintermediate banks
what black swans I see on the h...
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December 18, 2020 • 35 mins
Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist also known as Beeple who has made an artwork every day for over 13 years, talks about the NFT auctions he held last weekend, after learning about crypto two months ago. In the show, he discusses:
how he got into crypto two months ago, and made $3.5 million in NFT auctions last weekend
how the objects on sale were more than just jpegs and what physical objects came with the NFTs
what types of ...
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December 11, 2020 • 36 mins
Rohan Grey, assistant professor at Willamette Law, talks about the STABLE Act, which would require stable coin issuers to obtain a banking charter, require approval from the Federal Reserve and require issuers to have FDIC insurance. In this episode, Grey, an advisor to the bill, discusses:
how the past history of financial innovation and events that have posed systemic risks necessitates the STABLE Act
how he, not being a staff...
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December 4, 2020 • 37 mins
James Slazas, founder and CEO of LiquidStake and DARMA Capital, describes their retail and institutional offerings for customers who want to stake on Ethereum 2.0 but still access the locked-up capital. In this episode, we discuss:
what problem LiquidStake solves and how
what happens if the dollar value of someone’s stake drops below the amount that they’ve borrowed
who keeps the ETH in a liquidation
how LiquidStake makes m...
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November 27, 2020 • 31 mins
This episode is a discussion from Stellar's Meridian conference, in which I moderated the panel, Crypto on Every Corner: Driving Adoption, featuring Jeremy Allaire, cofounder, chairman and CEO of Circle, and Meltem Demirors, chief strategy officer at CoinShares. In this discussion, we cover:
what adoption means and looks like
why cryptocurrency is at a particularly interesting inflection point
how central bank digital currenci...
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November 20, 2020 • 34 mins
Nic Carter, general partner at Castle Island Ventures, and cofounder and chairman of Coin Metrics, explains why the Bitcoin price has been rising without the retail bubble seen in 2017-2018. In this episode he covers:
how this Bitcoin rally differs from the ones in 2017-2018 and why the market is much more mature
how much the pandemic and other macro forces this year have helped propel Bitcoin
what it says that the number of B...
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November 13, 2020 • 38 mins
Paxos CEO and cofounder Chad Cascarilla discusses his company's partnership with PayPal, which just opened up its crypto purchase and selling product to all its US customers. In this episode, he covers:
how Paxos enables PayPal's crypto product
the regulatory steps Paxos took to make this happen
why $200 billion company like PayPal would partner with a small company like Paxos
how Paxos Crypto Brokerage works
how Paxos provi...
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November 6, 2020 • 41 mins
Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association and a board member of HODLpac, discusses how advocating for crypto will change under what is likely to be a new presidential administration. In this episode she talks about:
what crypto advocacy typically entails
how the approach will change under a Biden administration compared to what it was under Trump
what appointments by Biden could most affect the crypto indu...
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October 30, 2020 • 40 mins
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise Asset Management, discusses a milestone Bitwise reached this week -- hitting $100 million in assets under management. He also covered
what has been driving interest in Bitwise products
the two types of customers who have been especially interested in purchasing crypto assets this year and why
what this says about the maturation of the industry compared to during the 2017 bubble
h...
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October 23, 2020 • 41 mins
Willy Woo, on-chain Bitcoin analyst and writer of “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, discusses how the Bitcoin markets have been changing amidst what may be a forthcoming ebbing of derivatives exchanges and a revival of the importance of spot exchanges. In this episode, he covers:
what the PayPal news means when there are currently only 23.4 million holders on chain, and only 101 million active unique accou...
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October 16, 2020 • 36 mins
Jessie Liu, partner at Skadden and the former US attorney for the District of Columbia, headed up the team that has prosecuted what some believe is the greatest number of cryptocurrency crimes worldwide — Welcome to Video, Dark Scandals, Helix, North Korea, Hamas/Al Qaeda and ISIS. In this episode, she discusses:
how she came to create a Threat Finance Unit that focuses on the intersection of cybercrime that threatened national s...
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